tonight on r t a nuclear power plants put on alert in the u.s. because of deadly superstorm sandy the weather is also put election campaigning on hold but fears it could cost vital votes we've got the latest for you. but rain bands all gatherings intensifying crackdowns on anti-government protesters clashes with police why. britain set for a clash over cash in funding the e.u. members italy and spain insist they don't need.

ten pm here this is our. top story this hour a nuclear power plant in new jersey has been put on alert as waters around that facility swell as a result of superstorm sandy now the plant's about one hundred kilometers south of new york it was shut down for refueling last week but radioactive material at the site could potentially prove dangerous nuclear expert arnold gundersen told me the authorities should take more precautions. the water level was somewhere around two meters perhaps a little higher because the gauge that the government uses to measure it actually broke in the storm surge and because pump is critical to cool the water when it's in the nuclear reactor but in america well we move the fuel into the spent fuel pool we have no way of cooling it off of easels and we need offsite power to run the large pumps the real problem is that the

box that the fuel is in can get very very humid because as this water begins to get hot steam goes up and the equipment in that box safety related equipment is really not designed for high unity so it's important that the fuel pool cooling be reestablished and it's important that it be maintained in the long haul i don't believe we'll have a. disaster but i think it really should show the american nuclear regulatory commission that it can happen here we could have a flood inland in one of the pennsylvania plants and be having the same conversation two days from now. well some cases also hit the race to the white house with both a bomber and his republican challenger mitt romney suspending their election campaigns and the storm could hit a bump chances to it might make voting in the traditionally democrat state of new york difficult u.s. political activist tom hayden says sandy could fuel the electoral crisis. it's

destroying the legitimacy of the election potentially on the east coast early voting is being wiped out in nice cities and states the voting of the elderly on election day the voting of the poor on election day the voting of new yorkers on election day is likely to be diminished through no fault of their own and that will affect the outcome of the election but at the same time it's extremely possible to manipulate the computers so if it's a close election it will be protested and contested as illegitimate for days and days and into the future just as the election between gore and bush. was seen by most americans as stolen that could happen again so we are in for a an electoral crisis i think of

a very very profound nature. well you get live updates so i'm super storm sandy. plus our coverage of the presidential race kinds down to election day as well we take on what other channels ignore you can watch the final run a debate between the third party candidates right here on our next monday. governor romney or are we both agree we agree we have to bring the tax rates down i felt the same as the president did governor romney i'm glad. you agree let's come back to something the president i agree on and you tube you agree that the voters have a choice perhaps you wondered who to vote for when romney and obama agree on so many things never you do have other options come november sixth tune in to see the second round of debates between the major third party candidates right here on our t.v. . authorities in bahrain have banned all must public gatherings as clashes escalate between police and protesters the government says the anti monarchy protesters are abusing their right to freedom of speech and

threaten national unity there are almost daily clashes with police using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds the shia campaigners of being long demanding more rights jobs and education from the sun humanity already opposition political attention spoke to me he told me the government is fuelling the crisis it claims it's trying to prevent. this is the time for you little. to. nothing but in a small institutions these are the solutions taken by individual interests and when they are talking about maintaining the peace and stability on. more than one hundred this and the last of this if you can once we know that. they are political islam and people do not think that they're honest but this is there's a spike here be a huge part of the government being part of that it just lifted the team exploded.

he is having an independent judicial system where there is there are just a few ruling the law. because what they're going to do with it is that they will see what they did. last week they will see each almost all but couldn't even look from going into their homes this is not going to rain and this is it impossible and this is still no laws. a battle over funding for the e.u. is brewing in the u.k. parliament conservative backbench is leading a rebellion calling for the cash flow to be cut while prime minister david cameron faces pressure from brussels to increase the u.k.'s contribution in line with inflation. thanks planes more. prime minister david cameron certainly going to be feeling the pressure this is a rebel motion this been tabled by the tory backbenches and it's going to be in the commons tomorrow and it's certainly as he said going to put david cameron under

pressure they're calling for a real turn cuts to the budget between twenty fourteen and twenty twenty now the wanted spending to rise by about five percent downing street has said the prime minister supports the rise in line with inflation about two percent but as you can see a real difference is sentiment amongst his own party now he's going to be meeting with the european leaders in brussels in a couple of weeks time negotiations are going to start we've seen labor jumping on the back of this as well it is a conservative motion if they will it won't be binding on the prime minister but it would certainly put him under a lot of stress whilst those negotiations are going on in brussels it could also maybe see him use his veto. with the european leaders and you know germany in particular has been trying to sort of thrash out this compromise this i think going to be putting him under a lot of pressure while an interesting time for britain when it comes to the

question of the membership might say no the point in the history of on them is it has prisoners placed in the bin so under question this certainly being arises and he feeling austerity measures a very much affecting people we spoke recently to the former conservative chancellor who also he was telling us that there really has been a very significant rise in anti and with good reason for the public to that there are whole lot of pretty restrictions which come to us from europe or european law which we can't change which you have to go along with even though we ourselves to a degree with them you can see who took the single currency is a mystery you're european economy is a mess and doing before. it is don't particularly inspirational there's a big question where are the europe's missing millions going you know all this money going to all these projects and still you know people are facing very very severe austerity measures what people are going to be looking for ahead of david

cameron going to these negotiations next month and certainly with this rift that we're seeing it is part of a wider rift in the government people want to see leadership here from david cameron and they don't want it to come from brussels they want it to come from their prime minister be talking in their national interest not in europe's interest . so if this political battle is being waged in greece shortly tonight putting a split at the top in athens with the latest bailout potentially in the balance of story and what will to do after this break. horses and bayonets big bird these are the words of internet legend from the two thousand and twelve presidential debates when a candidate says something dumb or odd to so much fun to make silly pictures like

these on the internet ho ho hee hee but the problem is that the person who wins the bait is the one who makes the best argument not he who doesn't make a verbal slip ups people react to these debates like schoolgirls picking prom queen or rummy talked about big bird who howard dean scream. gaffes don't matter that much it matters if the ideas the candidates present are effective or not but more importantly it matters if they will actually do them if a future can't they proposed a brilliant economic plan that could save america but instead of saying pennies let the word penis slip our gossip celebrity culture would make him lose the election for sure as a potent army of photoshop or sort of hundreds of copper fellas is drawn all over the internet by the next day a schoolgirl attitude towards politics won't do anything except make fun internet memes but that's just my opinion.

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is our take athens has delayed a vote on a massive new austerity package with thirteen of billion euros as the coalition can't agree on the cuts it's parties on the left that are leading the dissent greece's creditors will hand over the next bailout tranche meantime which athens needs to avoid bankruptcy unless those cuts are passed international public policy analyst lucas jamal last told me the latest plan to start he will hit the people. it looks pretty grim it looks pretty black out here in athens so we're mainly talking about new wage. new tax hikes for me labor laws in general moving into what could be called flexible type of economy . supposed to for people within the greek economy but on the other hand we have already seen the negative consequences of such a policy with unemployment reaching almost twenty five percent within the general

population i do think indeed the government will set ceding passing new cuts i have to mention that could huge problems will of course piero in voting in favor of new fresh tax hikes as well as haricots this is something that had to be expected but i do think that at the end of the day this this new bill will pass and the final disbursement of the trench will be completed successfully. bunking well practice excessive risk taking the bonuses paid out for. a little wonder the people's patience with the banks is run out but if not the global financial giants question is where do you trust your cash. meets one british money thinks he's got. a low ranking one on the market like you do fish which is a cheeky northern charm or he made his fortune selling minibuses in his hometown as

burnley but instead of fancy holidays and expensive cars when the credit crisis hit dave wanted to give something back so he decided to open a bank late two thousand and eight early two thousand and nine my mini. me to get funded for their bosses as they are done for the last fifteen years but overnight that just stopped the banks just stopped lending to the to the customers and i'm thinking have it done something wrong have they made a mistake of that up at the gas bill electric bill you know it's not the people that are the problem it's the banks that have the problem try thought outland of them so that's what it banked on dave he says although thanks to extensive red tape he's not actually allowed to call himself a bank and he's keen to differentiate himself from banks in other ways too he offers five percent on savings and he lends that money out to his local community and no bonuses any profits go to charity. but there just

isn't a day in every town more's the pity so his isn't a model which could be rolled out nationwide in its current form but financial experts say lessons can be learnt for a healthier banking system one point is clear and this is a point that the bank makes in a way is that banking has just moved too far away from its roots and its basic need to to understand. with. highly leveraged games a list of. dates ultimate goal is to bring banking back to its roots no more faceless conglomerates where computers and mavericks make the decisions and the one percent pockets unimaginable bonuses instead of local banks the local people run by the community to benefit the community it's not

a new idea in fact it's how banking used to be before the mega bucks and mega banks stepped in and dave still taking to get some political support you have to take save us money and invest it in real productive activity to take responsibility for doing it which is not the way that banking currently works in his comical kind of crazy way showing the way to a better banking system which is responsible local in touch with entrepreneurship which actually could be the basis for going forward there's certainly got to be some way forwards as wave after wave of scandal hits the financial sector banking on dave and others like him looks more and more attractive one of the same the usual people who rob banks go to prison banks who real people get paid bonuses that has to stop laura smith r.t. birmingham. muslims of belgium say they're gearing up for

a campaign to establish an islamic state there the newly formed party plans to vote in the country's general election the vote for the european parliament in twenty fourteen that's after two they're counted as one seeds and regional polls earlier this month that development has left us seriously. you see people from within islamic background forming their own political parties now and demanding the introduction of sharia law in an islamic state in belgium we've always predicted it is but. mostly people mainly supported the socialist parties and other leftist parties but now they feel apparently confident enough to make their own party and it's only natural thing that many people are worried if they see elected people in brussels now but it will undoubtedly come in other local places as well when these people you know openly call for the settling of an islamic state you know we are in western europe and many people don't feel at home

in a city such people are winning elections and you could say ok it's only one seat in two different communes in brussels but i'm sure this is only the start of something that will only gain importance. reporting tonight to their plans for a london venue with a ten thousand strong capacity right to fear to that we're talking about a mosque it would be four times the size of simples cathedral with locals including muslim fearing it's designed to be a hotbed of extremism a report on that in detail online and a major withdrawal by swiss banking giant u.b.s. it announces axing fellows of the jobs as it pulls out of the risky investments that have seen its debts explode or without a dog. with renewed fighting syria's failed temporary true shows it's a country that's far from solving its crisis while keeping its neighbors on the edge but to see what happens after western driven regime change you need to look no

further than libya where fear of violence still stalk the streets a year after what was supposed to be its democratic liberation policy and found that syria could be next. things have gone from bad to worse in a region powered by the hope of change not so long ago and libya one year after the revolution guess shells and artillery reportedly being used against peaceful civilians lebanon is on the brink of civil war and syria is already fighting one idiot there is a process of another reformatting of the geo political map of the middle east when various players try to secure their own political positions we consider this counterproductive such measures imposed from outside can never give a stable long term results. countries in a woman's tens of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands maybe fiji's but western nations it seems are still no way to stop it we are going to do everything

we can to make sure that we are helping the opposition and to further pressure and isolate the regime saying syria. is a very high priority for us and it's not me a lip service washington and its european allies are assisting the rebels to get rid of assad i'm sure of one thing the syrian regime will never find its place among the community of nations it has no future among us that is why france will recognize a provisional government representing the new free syria once it's been formed. but if assad goes it's almost guaranteed that the carnage will continue. to show us how to protect minorities including the christians that have lived in syria for hundreds of years even the strictest estimates of the situation received from our west european partners says that at least one third of the population still back assad regarding him as a person destined not to let syria turn into a country impossible for minorities to live in. and no more than ever syria's

instability threatens the security of neighboring lebanon and here too the u.s. has made it clear it supports a new government it was a false hope. that the lebanese intelligence officer was killed that murder time to widespread condemnation and of course for the international community to stay out of domestic affairs a message the international community would do well to heed a phony to prevent the region from forming into for the chaos today we're seeing the western and and g.c.c. led counter revolution while at the same time on one hand the west is is proclaiming some kind of backing of people you know rights to self-determination through this arab spring and actually what they're doing is unwinding it for them in countries like bahrain in yemen in countries like libya and in syria where the west has acts of ways thought to foment rebellion and force

regime change a reality far from the minds of those who once championed the arab spring and what it could bring. business update right after this break. in the middle of russia's no phone away from civilization and its meola helicopter treat from the nearest village. they still one family have been living here for a long time in tents made of rain dius canes.

lodging runs in a signal and minutes they also grew up in the to draw but left it at the age of six and never returned they now leaving the city in apartment building but still ruined their regions. was planted here is a dancing teacher. was. next to his den says he tells the stories about his motherland. laws in europe to now has a one thousand strong rangy had when the enemy only saw the light can and most

around it is gather the turns and move to know the pasha they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter and then children for them. the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though there's sometimes a similar. download

to show up location so choose. language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch r.t. all you need is your mobile device watch r t any time. hello and welcome to the business updates on r.t. gas problem is turning east and apparently it's going to cost the company a lot the energy manger will spend around thirty eight billion dollars to build a pipeline in the country's far east a third of that money will be spent on the development of

a gas field in the sahara public where the link will take its start the thirty two hundred kilometer pipeline is expected to be ready in five years gas from also plans to set up a liquefied natural gas production plant in the region by twenty eight c. the company says the far east capacities will allow it to set up gas supplies to the asia pacific equal to current european ones or even bigger but investors were not happy with the news because it means more spending coming from gazprom and as you can see the r.t.s. on my six ended the day on a negative note to investors trying to play it safe ahead of the u.s. elections coming up this weekend ahead of a long weekend in russia and among the movers gazprom was one of the worst stocks down two and a half percent on the back of these of the worries that additional spending on these massive projects like nordstrom and this one will cost it and eats into the companies david was never however was bucking the trend it was up almost one percent as it's in negotiations with t. and k b p a company that is buying over to purchase their assets in venezuela over

on the european market we've had the. a pretty positive session with the footsie and the dax up around one percent at the close that's greeks prime minister has said that he could see a sions with the troika on the bailout program have been completed and if it is accepted basically greece is staying in the euro zone and on the currency markets the euro was gaining against the dollar as calculations continue as to the havoc that hurricane sandy is wreaking in the east coast. now russia has launched the privatization process of its biggest seaports and c.s.p. the state has started talks with possible investors intending to sell the whole twenty percent of its that it owns in the heart of the state is currently estimated at three hundred fifty million dollars expected to be offered in both moscow and london in early november. all right that's it for me i'm back in fifty five minutes

with an update up next we try to find the answer to the syrian standoff with the head of the russian parliament's foreign affairs committee. joining me now is the next a pushkov he's the head of the international committee in the russian duma thank you for being with us i'd like to begin with diplomacy in the world today and it's never been easy but it seems even more powerless with situations like we're seeing with full blown conflict in syria do you think a political solution that through words we can have peace there. has deteriorated to the extremely since last spring. and today it looks more like a bloody deadlock. than something that would give you the prospects for. a peaceful solution yet.